Open Source Platform and Reporting Modules for Public Services Procurement.

Dear Mr Dyke,

Please accept this letter as acknowledgement of receipt of your Freedom of Information request submitted to NHS Redbridge which has been allocated the reference number 4338/R

This matter is now receiving our attention. Our response will be issued by 22 January 2012 or before, which is in line with the 20 working day legal limit.

It would be greatly appreciated if you would be kind enough to use this reference number: 4338/R on any further communications concerning this matter.

Yours sincerely

Many thanks

Freedom of Information
[email address]
020 8926 5323

NHS Outer North East London - a partnership of local primary care trusts
Becketts House, 2-14 Ilford Hill, Ilford, IG1 2QX

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Dear Mr Dyke

We acknowledge receipt of your email dated 27 January in which you have
requested an internal review.  This matter is now being processed as
requested.

Yours sincerely

Directorate of corporate affairs

NHS outer north east London

[1][email address]

Please note that with effect from 1 April 2011 all Freedom of Information
requests for NHS Havering; NHS Barking and Dagenham; NHS Waltham Forest
and NHS Redbridge will be handled centrally by NHS Outer North East
London.

To ensure prompt attention to your request(s) please ensure that you
nominate which primary care trust your request is being submitted to.

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Dear Mr Dyke

We refer to your request, shown below, and apologise for the delay in
issuing our response.

We have separately acknowledged receipt of your request for an internal
review and have confirmed that this is being processed in respect of the
delay in providing the response.

We would appreciate your confirmation that you wish this review to
continue.

Our response is as follows and provides almost all the information you
have requested. We have cited the required Exemption(s) against the
information we are unable to disclose.

1] Number of Expressions of Interest received      = 33 at advert

                                                                    = 18
confirmed

2] Number of Pre-qualifying questionnaires           = 18 issued

3] Number of Intentions to Tender                      =  6

4] Number of Intentions to Tender received          =  6

Please see attached sheets providing company names only.

5] All master documents issued are attached to this email.

We are unable to provide copies of the actual submissions on the basis of
Exemption 43.2 namely “Information is exempt information if its disclosure
under this Act would, or would be likely to, prejudice the commercial
interests of any person (including the public authority holding it).” 

6] OJEU Notice dated 25/08/11, OJEU Notice Reference: 11/S 162-267964/EN

We regret that we have been unable to fully satisfy your request.

If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request you have the
right to ask for an internal review.  Internal review requests should be
submitted within two months of the date of receipt of the response of your
original letter and should be addressed to:

Sue Brown

Freedom of Information Officer

NHS outer north east London

2-14 Ilford Hill

Ilford

Essex

IG1 2QX

Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review you have
the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision.  The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

Information Commissioner’s Office,

Wycliffe House,

Water Lane,

Wilmslow,

Cheshire,

SK9 5AF.

Yours sincerely

Directorate of corporate affairs

NHS outer north east London

[1][email address]

Please note that with effect from 1 April 2011 all Freedom of Information
requests for NHS Havering; NHS Barking and Dagenham; NHS Waltham Forest
and NHS Redbridge will be handled centrally by NHS Outer North East
London.

To ensure prompt attention to your request(s) please ensure that you
nominate which primary care trust your request is being submitted to.

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Dear Mr Dyke

Thank you for your email.  I have requested the additional information you
seek and will contact you as soon as I can.

Kind regards

Sue Brown

Freedom of Information Officer

020 8926 5323

[email address]

NHS Outer North East London- a partnership of local primary care trusts

Becketts House, 2-14 Ilford Hill, Ilford IG1 2QX

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Dear Mr Dyke

Further to your email containing secondary questions around your requests
we are able to advise as follows:

1] The current status of the procurement is that a contract award has been
made as per the attached notification placed on the OJEU website.  Also
attached for reference are the emails issued to you at PQQ.

2] The regulations around the procurement process would cover the issue of
documentation to all potential bidders at each stage of the process. 
There is, therefore, no system to “subscribe” anyone in the manner you
have requested. 

We trust this additional information will enable you to finalise this
issue.

Yours sincerely

Directorate of corporate affairs

NHS outer north east London

[1][email address]

Please note that with effect from 1 April 2011 all Freedom of Information
requests for NHS Havering; NHS Barking and Dagenham; NHS Waltham Forest
and NHS Redbridge will be handled centrally by NHS Outer North East
London.

To ensure prompt attention to your request(s) please ensure that you
nominate which primary care trust your request is being submitted to.

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Dear Mr Dyke

Freedom of Information internal review: 4338R

I am writing to let you know the outcome of the internal review that you
requested on 27 January 2012.

You had asked for a review on the basis of NHS Redbridge’s failure to
provide a response to your request under the Freedom of Information Act
within the statutory timescale.  In conducting the review I have
considered the handling and outcome of your request.

Your original request was made to NHS Redbridge on 22 December 2011 and
was acknowledged on 29 December.  I have identified that due to the
Christmas period and staff leave there was a delay in our internal
processes to deal with your request, for which I apologise. 

When your request was considered in late December 2011 it was identified
that whilst the tender had closed the contract had not yet been awarded
and as such there was some uncertainty about what information could be
released. 

Clarifying this matter took some time and it was not until 01 February
2012 that you received a response to your request, some nine days outside
the statutory timescale.   My investigation has identified that the delay
was as a result of the need to clarify the information to be released,
together with the impact of the Christmas and New Year period. 

I must apologise that on this occasion NHS Redbridge did not respond
within the required timescale.

If you remain dissatisfied you have the right to apply directly to the
Information Commissioner’s Office:

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Susan Aylen-Peacock, ACIS

Head of Corporate Governance

020 8822 3009

NHS Outer North East London - a partnership of local primary care trusts

Becketts House, 2-14 Ilford Hill, Ilford, IG1 2QX

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